[Insight-users] Pipelining - Loading MINC Image with VTK and Applying Registration in ITK

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Michael,

ITK supports MINC files now.


In order to use this funcionality
you should enable the CMake options:


        * ITK_USE_REVIEW
        * ITK_USE_MINC2


You will also have to build on your own the MINC2 libraries,
then ITK will be able to use them in order to enable the
classes itkMINCImageIO currently in the Insight/Code/Review
directory.

Note also that the minc2 libraries have recently been
adapted to be configurable with CMake. That will also
make easier its use along with ITK.


Please let us know if you find any problems
enabling these options.


    Thanks


       Luis


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M. Wirtzfeld wrote:
> Morning, afternoon, evening,
> 
> I need to apply ITK registration classes using a MINC volume and a  
> DICOM slice.  Both the ITK and VTK toolkits are new to me.
> 
> I have the Mattes Mutual Information registration class working (from  
> the ITK Software Guide example) by converting the MINC volume and  DICOM 
> slice to the Raw MetaImage format.  However, I would like to  use the 
> original MINC and DICOM files without conversion, using them  natively 
> in a consolidate piece of source-code.
> 
> I am able to read the MINC volume using the VTK class  
> "vtkMINCImageReader".  I would like to pipeline this volume into ITK,  
> but I am not sure how to proceed.  I have come across the ITK  
> "VTKImageToImageFilter" but I'm not sure if this is appropriate.
> 
> I also need to ensure that the final MINC volume in ITK and slice  have 
> the same "frame of reference" using their direction-cosine  values.  I 
> am aware of the article by Kent Williams, but the devil is  in the 
> details and I am not sure how to proceed.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael.
> 
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